Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad954a5f0d5d93c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 324502ac64d8246a80c01ce2db6a9cbb SHA-1: 15db1ecc03e503f924f579fdb9143420e7073433 SHA-256: ad954a5f0d5d93c5c852349da27427e9f2e3987a3106ce1a67e6f40479e9d9d7
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=english+grammar+worksheets+simple+present+tense`. Additionally, the PDF is identified as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a benign-looking topic, suggesting a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=english+grammar+worksheets+simple+present+tense
    • http://files.darranparkprimary.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303151/koxiravasom.pdf
    • http://dapofog.alfredphillipmoore.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969656/tumawiwukebimatedaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0921/6409/files/this_weeks_fishing_report_adelaide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0660/5981/files/faliji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2384/files/autodesk_inventor_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9412/files/hygge_meik_wiking_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6187/0741/files/guwimixuxoninomubodudere.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/danitiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9254/8515/files/john_deere_770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6586/8437/files/xogumofozozur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1745/3211/files/zisafo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000052f9.bin
6219532553ae605bcc24eb37c1f114f0880714bf86d2d5efcca16fc168c55eb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52F9 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000650d.bin
7c69e93123ac21b203c8ae2394479acb74edf05a8a439e3a005ef9411cd71d7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x650D 10552 bytes